Minnesota Secy of State Not Happy with ‘Premature’ Franken Claim

“(We should point out that Coleman has prematurely declared victory a number of times as well. The morning after election night, after the unofficial canvass of counties, and after a canvassing board ruling.)”
Yet Franken gets two columns with a heading that he’s premature and the secretary of state is mad as hell. Is this disclaimer suppose to make things even handed?

Coleman has consistently been against counting votes. Franken wants the ballots counted.
Now we have a State Supreme Court appointed by the Republican Governor Pawlenty say that only ballots that are agreed to by both candidates get counted.
The candidates should not choose who gets a vote counted.
This was done on purpose to set up a
lawsuit and drag out a result for Coleman.

Jake Tapper quoting the fraudsters in the Wall Street Journal Page. Now that’s reporting for you.

Heil Stuart Small!

Joe West:” “Is this disclaimer suppose to make things even handed?”
Oh, please. Since when has anything owned by Disney been even handed?
After all, you ARE talking about network that gave us the truly excretable mini-series “The Path to 9/11″, which sought in a not-very-subtle partisan way to re-write recent history and pin responsibility for the tragedy on the Clinton administration.
Al Franken’s going to win this thing, because Minnesota deserves better than the likes of Norm Coleman.

After all this focus on Franken’s ‘pseudodeclaration of victory’, the author gives a ‘by the way’ . ..
“We should point out that Coleman has prematurely declared victory a number of times as well. The morning after election night, after the unofficial canvass of counties, and after a canvassing board ruling.”
After refusing in a previous article to say Franken outright declared victory, the author says ‘Coleman has . .. as well’.
This is bad reporting.

Florida didn’t do a recount? Hmm… that’s interesting, because I seem to remember one recount, and then a HAND recount that was STOPPED because the Florida Supreme Court didn’t make the entire state count using the same methods.
Some idiots, like this Secy of State, need to have their heads examined.

One more clown to join the other 99. It should be entertaining having this clown in Washington for the next six years. I thought he was a jerk when he was on SNL and his foray into the liberal news media was another joke that failed miserably. Guess you people in Minn. are gonna get what you wished for another jerk in Washington.

Why the heck don’t you just dp a re-vote and figure this out? Now that Obama is Pres, most people won’t lazily ‘party line’ their vote and that pathetic Franken will lose. I have to believe the people of Minnesota are smarter…

I could not help but notice how Ritchie did not address the charges against him. ACORN and Soros are behind him. I cannot expect justice from corrupt people like that. Their goal is to win at any cost – and all too often we let them do just that.

Franken can indeed predict the future of this recount. He can do it because his supporters are manipulating the process. They will create voters, find ghost ballots, disqualify categories of ballots which are likely to support Coleman and resurrect dead voters until they produce enough votes for Franken. They they will say, “Time to stop!”

This election is a total disgrace

I am a Minnesotan.
But this “recount” stinks to high heaven and the VERY partisan Democrat Mark Ritchie is at the heart of it. He has been tied at the hip to ACORN. He has spoken at their highly partisan meetings and encouraged them in what they are doing.
Isn’t it convenient how, contrary to ANY statistical probability, Franken has continued to “gain” vote after vote when NO OTHER race in Minnesota shows the same statistical pattern.
They have “found” votes for Franken all over the place! In warehouses. Under tables. In two Democratic counties, they just HAPPENED to “underreport” Franken’s votes by an even 100 votes!
When there were an “extra” 133 votes for Frankenon a voting machine than there were paper ballots to match, Rithie ruled that the higher Franken count was to be used rather than the number of actual ballots they had.
And it goes on and on. This is a SHAM!! A Mark Ritchie SHAM. And if he is allowed to steal this election for the Democrats, he will have turned “pristine clean” Minnesota into a third rate banana republic!
SHAME ON YOU, Mark Ritchie!
Jake Tapper, please do the investigation and hold the bright light of truth up to what is going on in Mark Ritchie’s office. Unfortunately, Chicago has nothing on Ritchie. Ritchie could teach them a thing or two of how to STEAL an election!!!

Have they counted all the military absentee votes ????

Franken wants them counted cause he and his cronies cast them. Franken is scum. If he does succeeds in stealing this election the say good by to the republic. It’s only ok to lie, cheat and steal if your a democrat.

Man! I’ve never seen so many republicans come out of the swamp! How many of you are from Minnesota? If you aren’t, keep your pea-brained opinions to yourself. What makes you think Colem,an was a good senator? Becuase he was a republican and voted for the Iraq war and deregulation of the banking industry? Hell, I’m a lifelong republican, now independent, but you folks are kind of an embarassment. Let the people of Minnesota choose their own representatives. They voted in a wrestler as governor and survived just fine. Besides, what does a senator do but campaign and vote. Man, it takes a lot of talent to get our country in the condition it is in now after the past eight years.

Whoever wins will be seen as illegitimate with 1/2 the electorate.
Every state should clarify and expedite the recount process. What good is going to the nth-degree to insure fairness when this is the result.

Chief P – Check out the history of the Community Reinvestment Act and its impact on the Fannie and Freddie debacle. To the tune of +2 TRILLION and counting and Bush was in a minority trying to fix with his first budget. And on the Iraq it seems too many forget the +decade prior and what Dem’s beliefs were about Saddam and Iraq and the UN inaction with , was it 17 violations of UN directives. Deregulation was not the issue… To not pursue the CRA leave the US without the ability to understand the issue and facilitate corrections and currently the cabal who created that mess are the party in majority and thus applying the fixes. The Fox is now guarding the hen house. We are going to need a lot of luck and a vocal informed constituency or this one will be worse than 1929.

Hey Fargo. Dem’s in Washington State did the same thing. Keep counting until they get it right. They did and won by 133. What they don’t mention is that some 9000 were not legitmat. DB

Mr Ritchie, a typical democrat, simply morphs the facts when the facts don’t support him. There was no recount in Florida because the recount was not constitutionally mandated. Remember the concocted cries of “voter disenfranchisement” by Marxist lefties trying to steal the election? The charade was exposed and the recount was halted. But, in any event, every review of the Florida vote in 2000 concluded that Gore lost. Minnesota’s goatrope is in a class of it’s own.

Rumor has it that Minnesota’s govenor is going to settle it by appointing Bill Maher to the seat.

Ritchie was put in place by Acorn to do a job and that was to ensure the election of Franken. Franken’s just expressing some of the confidence any preordained winner in a fixed election would. As Senator, Franken will remind everyone of the disgrace that Minnesota is to our country every day.

Say it, “SEN-A-TOR AL FRANK-EN” HAPPY NEW YEARS! HATERS AND ALL.

Robert, are you insinuating that ABC Newws is a mouthpiece for the Republican Party? That’s really funny. Have a meat pie.

I see the liberals are out with their typical and tired “Bush stole the 2000 election” propaganda. I love how the left tries to distort history, but for those of us that lived through it, we have a duty to correct these lies.
Florida 2000 was one of the rare instances where the Democrats were foiled in their attempts to steal an election. They wanted to cherry pick the counties where they could recount ballots. Now that we have seen what they did in Washington and now MN, we know that they are not interested in counting ballots, they’re really just trying to buy time while they manipulate and magically find “new” votes – in some cases more votes than there are people. Anyone ever wonder why ACORN tries to get so many (fraudulent) registrations????
Remember, these are the same people that absolutely refuse to allow any kind of election reforms (such as voter ID cards) that would help reduce the ability for voter fraud. Wonder why that is???

Note to Mark Ritchie: Since when is telling the truth a “personal attack” that you won’t respond to.
The Secretary of State Project website has this to say about him:
“In 2006, the Secretary of State Project raised over $500,000 and helped elect five reformers in key battleground states. Dollar for dollar, our model was one of the most effective political investments of the cycle.
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Also thanks to SoS Project donors, Minnesota’s Mark Ritchie- a true champion for democracy – was able to defeat a two-term incumbent republican by less than five points. We helped close the gap and make the difference with cable television ads targeting women and seniors.
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In 2006, the SoS Project helped elect one of the most progressive Secretaries of State in the nation, Mark Ritchie.
…”
All of this is right there on their website, along with their hope that he’ll deliver this race for Al Franken by “counting every vote.” There is no personal attack there: it’s a statement that The Secretary of State Project boasts openly about. He’s an exceptionally partisan “progressive” and he’s openly boasted about his fundraising activities for the Secretary of State Project, which exists to install other people like him around the country.

The media needs to do more to report on ACORN and election board procedures that placed Al Franken ahead. Things like divining voter intent from stray, random marks on ballots and voters who didn’t follow the rules.
Unfortunately, though, the mainstream media does not represent the American public’s values, but represents a small, decadent media subculture which hates America . Al Franken is part of this decadent media subculture. For America to assert itself and put its enemies in their place, there needs to be a mass uprising against the dominant media decadent subculture which has misinformed Americans and is leading America blindly down the path of its own destruction. It’s time for the propaganda war against the American middle class to end. Our enemies don’t play like we do, to them the means justify their twisted ends. They declared war on our nation a long time ago while we were sleeping. The middle class needs to detach itself from the New York and Hollywood decadence, lies, and propaganda that has brought America to its knees in a brainwashed stupor. These charlatan magicians selling their snake venom have Americans transfixed while our enemies are having a field day at our, our children’s, and our children’s children’s expense.
I remember an old saying. What if they gave a war and nobody came. If Al Franken becomes Senator, it will be another battle in our enemy’s war on us which we have lost while not paying attention to their chicanery and keeping them honest. Don’t be deceived. An enemy who will use any means to defeat us is at war. They will take no prisoners. Now it’s time for us to enter the war, and win.
Spread the word. These people don’t think like us and they don’t play by our rules, decency, or the American Constitution. They are abhorrent to American values. Call them what they are, the decadent media subculture. Al Franken is a member.

Congrats on winning Sen. Franken. Too bad for the neo-CONservatives who were foiled trying to steal another election.

Liberals are feeling much more comfortable now that they have a majority in the both the house, the senate and own the white house. No other explanation for Jake Tapper’s sudden less bias coverage which was non-existent before the November election. I’m sorry but its far too late and too little. ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC are ALL equally guilty of pushing their agenda above the news. They were the newsmakers and not reporters. 2008 is the final nail in the coffin of an objective media. Thank God we have alternatives by way of the Internet.

Nothing, absolutely nothing, has been move obvious throughout the Minnesota Senate race recount, than the ACORN endorsed Secretary of State Mark Ritchie’s complete an unequivocal commitment to doing every single thing possible to ensure that Al Franken steals this seat from Norm Coleman. Every decision Ritchie has made thus far reeks of his obvious alliance with Franken, and the people of Minnesota ought to be deeply ashamed of his corruption of his office.

The idea of Al Franken holding his former seat surely has Paul Wellstone rolling over in his grave.
Wellstone was a far-leftist. But he was a gentleman, and he was respected. Franken is neither.

We can assume the people who’s ballots were rejected tended to be unusually stupid. It follows that a higher proportion of the votes will go to the Democrat.
Remember it was a pack of almost exclusively Democratic morons in Floriduh that couldn’t understand you only pick one candidate for President.

ACORN and MoveOn.org have given Chris Dodd and Blarney Frank a partner in High Crimes.

Al Franken is not a real person. He is a cartoon character. Can a cartoon character serve in a public office?

Why do liberal writers need to resort to slurs while trying to show how informed they are as opposed to how stupid everyone else is?
Democrats and Republicans alike should be livid about this election. We should be outraged that our elected officials use every possible means to continue corrupt elections, which denies every single one of us our Constitutional rights of a representative government chosen by the people.
The Minnesota results are permanently tainted. It can’t be made right. By every appearance, this is another rigged election.
Our republic can’t stand when we can’t believe the results of our elections, and so many machinations are employed to legitimize ANY candidates election.
IT IS TIME TO GET RID OF CAREER POLITICIANS AND REPLACE THEM WITH CITIZENS WHO CARE MORE ABOUT WHO PUT THEM THERE THAN THE D or R BEHIND THEIR NAME.The parties themselves will never do it, so we had better DO IT OURSELVES.

Actually Mickey, Wellstone was a pretty close friend of Franken. He’d hardly be spinning in his grave. He’d be honored to have Al filling his seat.

Same old, same old, keep recounting till the Democrat wins then stop. Interpreting any chicken scratch, any smudge, anywhere on the ballot for the Democrat. Apparently they don’t even need ballots, just invent them. Then the Democrats feed Acorn money so they can fix the next election. What do we live in Zimbabwe?

After reading this ridiculously one sided article how is Jake Trapper the official “Senior White House Correspondent” for a major news network. Oh my fault he actually is employed by ABC.

You Swedes deserve what you get with a hack like AL. One year from now America will be suffering from buyers remorse with the democrats voted into power. They will sell out America to the lowest bidder.

I think Franken will win because he’s using the Washington(state) recounting system, from the maritime state with a proven expertise in rigging.
And with his victory, Minnesota will go from being merely trivial (Jessie?) to becoming the third most corrupt state behind Illinois and Washington.
(It looks like Louisiana has moved down in ranking to at best fourth, and probably lower.)
The real reason that Coleman lost is that McCain pulled Palin out of Minnesota. The reason that Chambliss won in Georgia is that he didn’t.
You can understand why they (the Dems, the Left) fear and loath her so.

Another incredible Jake Tapper moment in forgetting he is talking to a liberal Democrat Sec. of State in Minnesota and forgets to mention it.
Tapper forgets to mention that Franken has votes showing up in the trunks of cars on election morning, ballots marked for Coleman given to Franken and two voting districts manufacturing Franken votes. ABC stands for Already Been Counted for Franken just like they refuse to mention an AOL poll now showing that a majority of Americans in almost all 50 states conclude that Barack Obama’s credentials do not meet presidential qualifications and need to be looked into.
Asking a Democrat if votes are being counted fairly by Democrats for a Democrat is like asking ABC if ABC is in the tank for Obama. This wasn’t a story Jake Tapper, this was propaganda.
Al Franken and his conspirators should all be indicted on electioneering.

Is Chicago in Minnesota ?? Sure could have fooled me..Maybe Tapper can tell the difference or does he even know where to find the truth…Call Daley..I think he may want to move !!

We get the government we elect. In Illinois we gave Blago a second term, even knowing he was being investigated for “pay to play”. In Minnesota on two occasions they thought it would be cool to vote in a B-List celebrity.
Republicans should sit back and enjoy the entire thing blowing up. Franken will be an idiot and an embarrassment to his party. This opens up huge opportunities for the opposition party if they will just play it right.
Franken also brings down my alma mater St. Louis Park High School (St. Louis Park, MN). Wish I’d graduated a little earlier, shoving the little twerp in a locker would have been satisfying.

Remember people, the majority of good folks in Minnesota didn’t cast their votes for Franken. It’s being stolen via a corrupted recount process.
And as someone else said, a Franken win will have consequences for all of us, not just the state of Minnesota.
This is only made possible because the msm including this site owned by ABC, the “Almighty Barrack Channel” will not do their jobs and hold the government accountable when it’s democrats in power.
The BS MSM would’ve never allowed Clinton to remain in office had he been a republican.

Good grief. Norm Coleman was claiming victory non-stop when he had his trivial “lead” and Ritchie was silent. Coleman played the card of “waste of taxpayer’s money” for a recount. As it turns out when there is complete sunshine on the “rejected” ballots, many ballots get rejected because they are human, and by definition imperfect. Apparently, those that cannot stay between the lines are Democrats, more often than they are Republicans. When you look at most of those ballots that were rejected it becomes extremely clear who those voters voted for. In this case it happens to be Franken.

Forget about partisan politics and look at this from a protecting democracy standpoint.
In a close election for so many ‘errors’ to favour one side should be a cause of concern for everyone.
The involvement of a key person in this process with partisan groups, and a group under investigation for voter fraud should be enough for him to recuse himself from the process.
If this election becomes a replay of the Washington Governor’s race whoever wins will be tainted, and the voters of Minnesota will lose.

Coleman never prematurely declared victory. Coleman won the election on Election Day. And of course there was a Florida recount, which Bush won. It was only the illegal third recount of only the 4 Democratic counties that the SCOTUS put a stop too since it was unconstitutional. Is Ritchie a total imbecile, or just a damned lair?

Obviously there needs to be a recount procedure. But one in which votes are double counted, and different standards are used to insure that the Secretary of State’s party wins the election is sleazy beyond belief.

I think a Special Election is in order. With all the contested votes Miraculously going to Frankenstein. The population at large should demand a new vote! What better way to see who the people really want? No absentee ballots, just straight voting on one day. Polls open from 6am til 9pm (just so anyone working on that day has a chance to get to the polls). Why not? It would only make the office above reproach in the future. We can all remember how the FL vote plagued Bush for his entire first term (and beyond).

Let them recount until the next election
and then bring on 2 new candidates.

I have to wonder who the idiots are who would vote for Al Franken in the first place. He has absolutely ZERO qualifications for this job!!!

Happy New Year Everybody. Wish you all the best in the new year.

where is jesse ?

Franken(stein) steals votes, what do ya think he’ll do as an elected official? be honest???? ha ha. honesty & democrats..what an oxy-moron. A new election is what is needed, then see what happens!

Looks like we are going to have an entertaining next 40 years.
The haters are worried because they know they will be in the minority for a very looooong time.

I have to wonder who the idiots are who would vote for George W. Bush in the first place. He has absolutely ZERO qualifications for this job!!!

Down in Georgia they are happy with electing some bum named Chambliss who gets elected mocking the service of a triple amputee Vietnam Vet. Well done Georgia helluva job.

“Luckily we have elected a new president who will unite us all.”
Yeah, Whatever! The only way we will be united is when we all die together from a mass terrorist attack. Unite us all? What has Zero ever united? What a tool!

hes not happy because the check did’nt clear yet from soros…once it clears he can claim victory…and oh yea minnesota you desevere it..you and the demobots can parade al up front… the clown leading the circus. HAHAHA…..funny stuff!!!!!!!!

Even if we have to steal the elections, it’s still for our own good. No more GOP’s is the best for all of us. Besides, you guys stole one so now its our turn and this is better for us than that was.

Oh great… Now we will have Pelosi, Reid, Frank and FRANKEN!

“where is jesse ?”
Let’s hope he’s putting the pieces and people together to bring this “Obama” charade to an end before 20 January.
Even Oprah seems to have jumped ship.

Goodbye to George W. Bush and his lapdog Norm Coleman. Coleman will be using the donations that his suckers (I mean supporters) donated for the election to mount a defense of the bribery charges against him and his wife. Happy New Year!

I know this is just an infotainment article; however, if the reporter ever wishes to appear to be a journalist, he would pose what is referred to as a follow-up question. That would have been: “So, you deny having accepted support and/or contributions from ACORN and/or TSOSP during the 2006 campaign?” Even when Ritchie denies it, and it’s proved that he did, at least the reporter would look like he was doing his job, instead of just writing a “fluff piece” like the above.

“Our new president will have to work hard to overcome the obstacles that will be put by the same faction but I hope to GOD he is able to heal this nation.”
The mobster-and-media-made PEBO, with His bait-and-switch boys and His deep white pockets, IS the main obstacle to “healing” the country.
A General Strike for National Health would do much to concentrate His giddy stage-struck persona. Maybe even move Him to unburden Himself of a public opinion on Gaza and all that.

Happy New Year 2009.
Remember, the last time Dems held the Congress, it lasted for 40 years. Here’s hoping this one lasts atleast another 40.

Our new president will have to work hard to overcome the obstacles that will be put by the same faction but I hope to GOD he is able to heal this nation.
Hope to God to heal the nation…. what? by approving PBA…yea Gods behind you all the way on that one …you bet!!!

“Even if we have to steal the election …” I love that kind of thinking. It’s very popular with the liberals because they know what is best for everyone.

How about this, Minn.
Have the Gov. appoint a independent; as it seems neither party can steal the election.
This would give the powers that be a couple of years to make your election
process fool proff, instead of proof of fools.

Norm Coleman (R) = SORE LOSERMAN

God help this country!
There are actually people out there that are SO stupid that they think that the loutish, imbecilic Franken will make a good senator. It’s the media driven “dumbing down” of America.
This is why this country is on the express elevator to Hell.

“There are actually people out there that are SO stupid that they think that the loutish, imbecilic Franken will make a good senator. It’s the media driven “dumbing down” of America.”
At least Franken, unlike the possibly-incoming “president”, can actually speak without assistance.

Al Franken is one of biggest idiots I have seen in a long time. He was and is a comedian, how in the world do the people of this state think that this is a good choice for government? I think that their brains are still frozen and need to thaw. We are circling the drain with choices like this for leadership.

I won’t be going to Minnesota any time soon. I can’t visit a state where its people are big enough idiots to vote for Al Franken.

Rock, my friend, methinks you have too much time on your hands and too much hate in your heart. Take a deep breath, relax, all will be well with the republic regardless of what happens.
If you feel a real need to gloat over something, I didn’t vote for Obama (I voted for Keyes so it’s probably not a racial thing), Sen. Obama won, we lost, life goes on. However, feel free to gloat and excoriate me since my candidate lost if would help enhance your sense of self-esteem and superiority.
Be well my friend.

Franken is a sore loser.

Al Franken is a disgraceful embarassment…since when has that been news? Even we hardcore Democrats don’t want that babbling idiot in the Senate.

Norm, come on, respect the electorate and accept that they rejected you and your politics. At least muster whatever little dignity you have left and concede.
Norm Coleman (R) = SORE LOSERMAN

regardless of one’s personal ideology, doesn’t anyone see the danger in what effectively is turning into a one-party state that is actively attempting to silence dissent?
Let us say, just for the sake of argument, that a Democrat controlled (one party) government is going to successfully resolve the issues we face with the best intentions of the country at heart. Will that kind of concentration of power always be untarnished and protected by the ethical standards of the party?
Historically, that expectation has proven to be nonsense. And of course, the above argument is moot anyway, because silencing conservatives and anyone else who doesn’t tow the party line would violate our rights to freedom of expression anyway.

ha42 wrote:
“regardless of one’s personal ideology, doesn’t anyone see the danger in what effectively is turning into a one-party state that is actively attempting to silence dissent?”
Wow, what an upstanding citizen.
I wonder, where were you when republicans controlled all 3 branches and took our country to the 15th century. Oh I get it, its okay when republicans control the govt. Its bad only when democrats do, right?

DonJ’s post (Jan 1 12:28 AM) makes the most sense of any here regardless of whether you are a D or R but still an American.

Let’s face it. Franken is going to keep pulling votes out of his armpits and other body orifices until he can take the election.

Think that Franken and Coleman are both going to be LOSERS on this contest. Realize that what I am about to say is “WISHFUL THINKING”, but hope that some of our erstwhile senators will take note of what has happened in Minnesota, and start looking out for the people who elected them rather than their own rumps. Politicians had a large hand in the economic decline of this Country — to wit, Chris Dodd and Barney Franks, but who is holding hearings for them?? The vast majority in DC are spineless charlatans!

Anytime their is three way race, there should be a two candidate run off unless somebody gets a majority in the three way race. In a case like the Coleman-Franken race, it is in fact a statistical tie and should be settled in a two candidate run off. That is the only fair and democratic way and the only sure way to preserve the high confidence the people of Minnesota have in their election process. I would say the same thing in Illinois where president elect Obama’s Senate seat has become an sleazy political circus. Hold a special election and a run off if necessary and let the voters decide.

What an amazing statistical feat!
Some 800+ (lost ballots but miraculously found, “misplaced” ballots, etc.) overwhelmingly going for Franken.
Nevermind the date issues for some of the ballots.
Funny the Presidential vote in those same counties didn’t have the “count” issues, just the Senate seat.
Sorry Florida, Minnesota has upstaged you. Albeit without the hanging and dimpled chads.

George Carlin would have made a great senator with his unique powers of observation coupled with his ability to “dumb down” and interpret what the pols are really doing. Not to mention he’d be nobody’s toady.
Al Franken–well at least he’d be funny and honest. And you have to be smart to be a comedian. Better than most pols.
Norm Coleman–Oh well, he’d be neither.
Go get him Al, we could all use a funny senator with a brain.

Since Franken is currently ahead, I’m surprised they haven’t stopped counting already. That’s what happened in Washington. Maybe the election stealers don’t want to be so obvious this time.
And don’t give me any BS about Florida. Gore was never ahead, not after the first vote and not after any recount, despite all the fraud that was being perpetrated on his behalf.

Why is it, that when the name Al Franken is mentioned or read, the word “buffoon” immediately comes to mind?
PEOPLE OF MINNESOTA: He’s a failed comedian, how do you think he will do as a politician. I will join you in laughter at the outcome, and it will be the first time I have ever laughed at something he’s done.

Another democrat stealing another election.
You democrats are getting good at wide open thieving.
Rome is falling – and you’re smashing the columns and calling it justice.
I can’t stand the demcorats anymore – they are a SHAME.

When will we learn that when a Democrat wins, we all lose.

it takes a state to raise an idiot, and the circus needs a clown. this is what this country has come to be. no wonder we are being marginalized on the world stage. democrats rejoise in our decline.

Wow, if going to Iraq is what you think makes a great politician, then I’m sure you think George W. Bush is the greatest right? How many times has the Messiah been there now? Once?

MN senate reults=third world voting
Franken=insane=joke=progressive evil
Iam sure once in the senate, franken will agree w/ the new current occupant to spread your wealth around.

When Richie said that Florida did not do a recount he had to be referring to a state recount. Gore had the choice of going with a state recount but chose not to, against the advise of his advisors. Instead, Gore chose to go with selected counties that historically were strongly Democratic. Also, I still do not understand how Coleman’s ~ 750 vote lead dwindled to ~ 200 votes before the recount started.

I’m a Minnesotan and a independent voter, I am truly sadden at this one fact – In a recent independent study, Minnesota opinion shows that close to 40% of the people who voted for Al Franken – did not even know where he stands on the issues involving our government. Voters need to get involved! Do we really want a comedians running this country?

All throughout this election cycle, all we heard was about how the GOP needed to become more moderate if it wanted to be viable and attract more moderates & independents.
Now we ran the king of the moderates (aka king of the RINOs) as our Presidential candidate against a very FAR left Democratand got trounced.
And now we have Norm Coleman, who almost no one would describe as a conservative – in fact he’s one of the most “moderate” Senators in congress. So here he is running against a guy that’s about as far left as it gets and he’s not able to soundly defeat him.
There’s 2 examples of the GOP running “moderates” against extreme left-wing candidates and not being successful.
Seems to me that if the GOP is ever going to regain control, it darn well better start running some real conservatives and get away from these wishy washy moderate!

The American government will remain the people’s until the day congress realizes it can bribe the people with the people’s money.
Bailouts and record high fundraising, w00t.

Must be a democrat, otherwise he would have stated he was a republican twelve times in this blog.

Hey Stuart Smalley, you’re a disgrace and a coward. Minnesota is worse off for your shenanigans, and so is the country. You disgust me.

Let’s not get premature and hasty folks. When the ice goes out and the walleye fisherman go home, there’s sure to be a few hundred more ballots show up.

An article like this one would has no credibility in light of the fact that Norm Coleman claimed himself a victor on election day!

NOW THIS……IS HOW YOU “STEAL” AN ELECTION!!!

Anyone that believes that someone funded,bigtime, by Moveon.org is not cooking the books is crazy. How many democrats right now in the past 50days or so have had to resign for Americans to wake up and realize that the Democratic Party is not only corrupt ,for personal gain, but is also owned and operated by foreign entities? Mr. Secretary Florida had THREE RECOUNTS! Where have you been?? Dumb and dishonest.

Mr. Tapper, that’s a very cocky photo at the top of your blog. And although cockiness is a disease of reporters, still it might be best to soft-pedal that quality a little and replace the photo with one that expresses some other quality. Let’s see, how about impersonal honest and integrity? Or maybe dedication, a selfless mission to defend the basic principles of America (can always look them up). Oh, better yet, compassion and fellow-feeling with every citizen, whether they agree with your political viewpoint or not. Well okay, maybe Christlike is too much to ask. But at least a photo that doesn’t exhibit that assured set to your mouth, maybe just a little more gentle.